Each piece is beautifully crafted but collectively may be too much of a good thing, even in such a superb rendition. A disc for specialists, perhaps, but a special one. — Gramophone Magazine, December 2012More…

bright, youthful, polished singing, giving Clausen's music fine advocacy...Certainly his choral works deserve wider international recognition and would be worthy additions to the choral repertoire. — Gramophone Magazine, September 2012More…

Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Orchestre National de France, Alan Gilbert, Seiji Ozawa

Always a strong Francophile, she makes an inspired exploration for the still-developing French tradition...it is easy to hear what inspired [Dutilleux]...Her lower register has become ever-richer... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2012, More…

Kaufmann and Westbroek project the right kind of sexual and emotional intensity to carry the drama in the very bare setting that they're in, a tension matched elsewhere only by Waltraud Meier's... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2013More…

More than in previous recordings, Michael Tilson Thomas's superbly paced approach conveys the music's sense of vast surrounding spaces, and the momentum of the biggest passages is the more thrilling... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2012, More…

Release Date: 19th Mar 2012

Catalogue No: SFS0053

Label: SFS Media

Length: 47 minutes

Awards:

SACD

$16.75

Format: Hybrid Multi-channel

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the performances of the earlier pieces here are better recorded and generally better played than in the composer’s own recordings made when the techniques demanded by the music were clearly more... — MusicWeb International, August 2012More…

Kaufmann and Westbroek project the right kind of sexual and emotional intensity to carry the drama in the very bare setting that they're in, a tension matched elsewhere only by Waltraud Meier's... — Gramophone Magazine, January 2013More…